How to make a windows Service Interactive so that it can tell the user that an update is available via System Tray Notifcation

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I have Tried This Link "http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35773/Subverting-Vista-UAC-in-Both-and-bit-Archite" , but since it is for vista and i am running windows it seems not to be working as well

Posted 10-May-15 19:49pm

keyur chauhan

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Mehdi Gholam 11-May-15 2:04am

It is better to setup a TCP server in the service and poll from your application for the tray notification.

keyur chauhan 11-May-15 2:37am

I haven't used TCP Communication before , so can you please brief me with the process ?

Mehdi Gholam 11-May-15 2:41am

See my article here : http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/156765/WCF-Killer

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-05-10T20:40:00

"Interactive Windows Service" is nothing but absurd. Service, by definition, is a very different thing. You can have some UI (oh yes, interactive :-)) which can collaborate with some Windows Service application using one or another form of IPC: sockets, named pipes, "classic" remoting, WFC — you name it.

—SA